Hartwell v. State

COBB, W., Senior Judge.

Appellant, Lance T. Hartwell, was convicted and sentenced in four separate cases after all were consolidated for a single jury trial. Hartwell makes several claims for posteonviction relief. All but two of them are procedurally barred because they could or should have been raised on direct appeal. See Smith v. State, 445 So.2d 823 (Fla.1983). Hartwell’s claims that the State did not provide notice of its intent to habitualize him or proper proof of his predicate offenses to support habitualization require reversal.

To refute Hartwell’s claim regarding the lack of notice…